When selecting an executive coach, what do you want to know? When the International Coaching Federation (ICF) did a study on the reasons for choosing …
Executive Coaching and Assessments
Are assessments appropriate in business, life, or executive coaching? Talk about a loaded question! First: is it the coach’s role to assess? The straight answer …
Coaching Distinguished from Psychotherapy: A Guideline
by Ruth Dillon, Experienced Psychotherapist and Coach On a continuum, psychotherapy and coaching are both professional services for assisting clients in gaining happy, healthy living. …
Listening Techniques from Coach Training
In good coach training programs, listening techniques are an essential competency to include. What are the barriers to effective listening? One is biographical listening which …
Executive Coaching Skills on the Job
Do executive coaching skills enhance performance in jobs other than coaching? The questions is really too easy – yes! Executive coaching skills are applicable in …
Management Evolution to Executive Coaching
Thinking back thirty years, managers had the approach of “I am the boss so what I say goes and if you don’t like it you …
A Peer Coaching Conversation
Rather than offering ideas to a peer, a peer coach asks questions. When the peer is listened to, asked probing questions, and develops their own …
Peer Coaching versus Peer-to-Peer Conversation
Whether in a formal peer coaching relationship on the job or informally with friends, how exactly does peer coaching work? Peers want to be helpful …
Coaching Explored
Coaching is a hot topic – people who know what it is understand the benefits and often want a life or business coach, want to …
Executive Coaching – A Conversation
In the blog on Monday was a snippet of an executive coaching conversation. With the executive coach, the client explored what was happening, gaining valuable …